Sports

Former boxing champ Hector "Macho" Camacho shot in Puerto Rico

Former world boxing champion Hector "Macho" Camacho on Tuesday was shot in a hail of gunfire in his home town of Bayamon, Puerto Rico, according to the the island's largest newspaper, El Nuevo Dia.

Camacho was the passenger in a Ford Mustang when it was bombarded by bullets, and the driver of the car was killed, the newspaper reported. Camacho was rushed to the nearby Rio Piedras Medical Center with broken bones in his back, the report said.

He was in grave condition Tuesday night. Ernesto Torres, director of the hospital, said that if Camacho survives, he's unlikely to walk again, according to El Nuevo Dia.

The shooting led to a police chase along a Puerto Rica highway, where the gunmen also opened fire on police officers, the report said. As of 7:30 MT, no arrests had been made.

Camacho (79-6-3) is known for some big-name bouts in a long career over several divisions, including fights against Sugar Ray Leonard, Oscar De La Hoya and Roberto Duran.

In back-to-back bouts in 1997, Camacho knocked out Leonard to win the middleweight title, then six months later lost a welterweight title fight against De La Hoya.Camacho in 2001 fought Roberto Durano in Denver to a 12-round unanimous victory, at the Pepsi Center.

It was a rematch from five years earlier in Atlantic City, when Camacho won the middleweight title in a 12-round decision.

Missy Franklin, Jenny Simpson, Adeline Gray and three other Colorado women could be big players at the 2016 Rio OlympicsWhen people ask Missy Franklin for her thoughts about the Summer Olympics that will begin a year from Wednesday in Rio de Janeiro, she hangs a warning label on her answer.